This video colorfully illustrates how the energy in the food animals consume was once energy from the sun. Easy-to-understand examples help students create their own models to illustrate this concept. The video correlates to the Next...

Take a fashion-forward trip through Margaret Qualley's wardrobe journey, from humble beginnings to Hollywood glam.

Join artist Janet Echelman on a captivating journey as she shares her vision of art intertwined with the pulse of cities around the world. Through her intricate sculptures, Echelman explores the dynamic interplay between form, light, and...

The video explores how gaming technology is being utilized in various fields such as medicine, aviation, and archaeology. Surgeons use video games to hone their skills in laparoscopic procedures, while pilots train on high-end simulators...

This video highlights a mobile phone recycling program that incentivizes customers to recycle their old phones by offering money or the option to donate to charity. The program not only promotes environmental sustainability by reducing...

The video discusses controversial advertising tactics used by a Belgian DVD rental company, highlighting the fine line between humor and offensiveness in marketing campaigns. It also showcases a unique handbag with an integrated media...

The video explores the evolution of motor vehicles in response to dwindling petroleum reserves and environmental concerns. It showcases innovative designs such as the Tesla Roadster, Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, and vehicles powered by...

Architects in Turin are revolutionizing building design by using advanced lighting technology to simulate natural light in different weather conditions. This innovative approach allows for optimal use of sunlight, minimizing the need for...

Rick Maurer’s Feedback Toolkit is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to equip themselves with knowledge and techniques for a wide variety of feedback scenarios. Rick Maurer is clearly a master of feedback.

There is no way you can persuade someone who does not trust you. Trust is a vital part of Influence and persuasion. So, let’s look at how to build Trust.



We already have a very popular video about trust, that discusses...

Reuven Bar-On is an American psychologist who coined the term, Emotion Quotient (EQ). He has been working on a model of emotional intelligence since 1982.



He studies the ability of emotional and social competence to predict...

Peter Salovey and John Mayer developed a model of Emotional Intelligence based on four abilities. The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities focuses on how we process emotional information and use it to navigate...

The first domain of Emotional Intelligence is really simple, you’d think. It’s Self Awareness.



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If you do something really well, and get excellent results, then perhaps I can get the same results if I do what you do. So, I might ask you questions and observe how you behave. If I can figure out your formula and apply it, I can...

In this video, I offer you a ten-step Leadership Process.

Leader-Member Exchange Theory is deeply problematic. In fact, I don’t like it. But it may be a model you want to adopt. It is certainly a theory you need to understand, so you can avoid its Dark Side.

There are many conflicting models of leadership. How can you reconcile them all – they cannot all be right. Can they? <b<br/>r/>

In fact, they approach leadership in different ways.

Roles-based approaches to leadership focus not on the leader’s traits nor their behavior. Instead, they focus on their functions: what they need to do, to lead. And none is better, nor more accessible, than John Adair’s Action Centered...

Robert Blake and Jane Mouton took the idea of task versus relationship focus and turned it into a full-blown model of five leadership styles: their Leadership Grid.

Fred Fiedler developed a contingency model of leadership that suggests a leader’s effectiveness is contingent on the fit between their leadership style and the situation they face.





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Chris Argyris offers us a more sophisticated view of McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y model of motivation. His conclusion is that we need to treat people as adults.



Argyris put forward his ‘Immaturity-Maturity Theory’. This...

How do the characteristics of the task at hand affect motivation? This is the question that Hackman and Oldham tackle in their Job Characteristics model of motivation.



In this video, we look at the three factors that...

He may be most famous for his GROW Model of coaching, but John Whitmore's Team Development Model is a valuable way to understand how groups form into teams.

In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...